The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 29, 1934, Page 2

Rank a A.FL. RANK AND FILE n MOVEMENT GAINING, rr 147 Delegates Meet in and File Conference; Point Prograw PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. CONFERENCE SHOWS Pittsburgh National Rank Put Forward Seven n of Demands seven regular and three fraternal delegates representing the | militant rank and file elements in the American Federation of Labor attended the third National Conference here yesterda} A. F. of L. Rank and File Louis Weinstock, national secretary of the Rank and | File Committee, made the first re-* port, on the progress of the move-| ment during the last year and the 54th national convmtion of the A. F, of L., just completed in San Francisco. In-his. opening remarks Wein- stock>amswered a red scare regard- ing. the conference raised at the last moment by. Wm. Green, through his henchman in Pittsburgh, Pat Fagan, District Five president of the United Mine -Workezs. Weinstock branded | charges by Green that the confer- ence-“does not represent the A. F. of-L., and is using the name as a subterfuge,” as “an open lie, and not the*first one Green has told.” Weinstock pointed out that the 54th convention was representative, | nat of -the wide membership of the Av¥, of L., but of the national ex- ecutive. council, and that the con- ference here is rather the “real” convention of the workers organized within the A. F. of L. framework. Both sessions were given over to the xeport of the national secretary | and.those of the various city sec- retaries where rank and file com-| mittees have been in existence. To- day-a special session will be devoted to-.conferences of delegates within each industry. | ‘A resolutions committee of seven- | tetn delegates, including representa- tives of the workers in every indus- | try from mining to baking, was set | up and will introduce measures to- dayintended to strengthen on every | industrial front the struggle for un- | employment insurance (H.R. 7598) and against the reactionary official- dom of the A. F. of L. i Growth of Rank and File Movement | Commenting on the overwhelm- | ing majority, over 90 per cent, of the delegates to the 54th convention who ‘represented only the bureau- ezatic -top-leadership of the A, F.| of L., Weinstock stated: “Of the total of 438 delegates to the A, F. of,,.L...convention, at, most .only .10 per-cent represented the rank and) file-of the federation, these were the delegates, mary of them new and confused, from the various federal logals. throughout the country. “Bus here we do represent the and file. Here we have direct t. with the mines, the mills, | e. factories and can take up all the.problems which we encounter | theze. From here we must take back | to..our local unions concrete pro- | posals. which will enable us to strengthen our fight to change the | reactionary policy of A. F. of L.| under its present officialdom.” | He traced the growth of the rank | and file movement since its incep- tion following the Vancouver con- | vention, how Green and Co. were fipaliy-. forced to recognize its de- mand for unemployment insurance by, the mass pressure which quickly rallied to it; its growth until the| present. time, when 2,500 local unions, six state federations of le- bor, and five international unions, in¢luding the Amalgamated Asso- ciation,. the United Textile Work- | ezt, the Mine, Mill and Smelter | ‘orkers, the Molders International, in_/all” representing over 600,000 workers, have gone om record en- dorsing the Workers Bill (H.R. 7598). _From a movement for unempioy- | mient, insurance the rank and file| committee has grown until it now! fights for all the demands of the rank and file workers of the A. F. of L.” ,Rank and File Demands _ These demands are now crys- talized, said Weinstock, around the following seven point pro- | gram: | ._.1, For exemption of the unem- | Ployed from payment of dues. 2. For the ousting of all gang- sters and racketeers within the unions. 3, For the policy of class strug- gle ab against class collarboration. | For the right to strike. 4, Against the Jimcrow and all other discriminatory practices in unions. _5. For organizing the unorgan- | ized, into industrial instead of 6. Against the N.R.A. and the | coties, for the abolition of com- pany unions. | “<7, For the release of Tom | Mooney, Warren Billings, and the other class war prisoners. | The militant strikes of the past | year, Weinstock pointed out, have | brought no change in the basic Policies of the A. F. of L. top lead- | ers, but in the locals the fight of the | workers is taking on new charac- | teristics; walkouts and hard battles | are being fought against the em-| ployérs over the heads of the offi- cialdom. _..Werkers Answer Red Scare | “He -exposed the failure on the! part of Green, Lewis, and Co, to| quell the rank and file movement; by, raising the red scare, sending | out circular letters ordering the ex- | pulsion of Communists, In many | unions the workers rejected these letters and in a number of cases| a | been promised he would be permit- | yard of the local court house. } | so sent sharp retorts to President Green, warning him that he would have to expell the whole member- ship to get rid of so-called reds who are the fighters in every union. “The 54th Convention did not | solve the problem of the A. F. of L. worker today,” said Weinstock, “not | one single basic question of the| American working class was dealt | with. Nor was any mention made, in the report of the national exec- utive council, of a single one of the bitter strikes. which occurred dur-| ing the past year in San Francisco, Toledo, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, or of the textile or aluminum strikes.” | He quoted the financial report of | the strike-defense committee of the A. F. of L. to show “that out of a total of $133,615 collected during the past year for strike defense and re- lief, exactly $1,064 was spent on strikes, of the latter amount $1,000 going to lawyers and $84 to the strikers.” The rest was spent on the maintenance of a bureaucratic de-| fense machine, the bulk for staff wages. “The 438 delegates to Frisco con- trolled in all 24,906 votes. But in- stead of this vote being split pro-/ portionately — exactly eleven dele- gates controlled 13,239 votes, while | the rest was split up among the other 427 delegates.” | By this means, plus the use of the gag rule and typical steam roller tactics of the A. F. of L,, the Green- | Lewis machine was able to throttle | any rank and file measure which | the delegates attempted to intro- duce. The speaker describéd the nerv-| ousness of the bureaucrats during the whole of their stay in Frisco. fearful lest the irate workers march on the convention hall to drive out the fakers who stabbed the great) Frisco general strike in the back| and betrayed the Coast workers. He emphasized that for the first time | the convention did not set the city | where the next A.’ F. of L, conven- tion will take place. Concluding, Weinstock called on rank and file delegates here to | “Strengthen and unite all workers | in the fight of the rank and file, so; that there can be built, not outside | the A. F. of L., but inside, an or-| ganization of trade unions which will carry on the struggles of the rank and file workers throughout the country against the employing | lass.” | Telegram to Dye Strikers | A telegram was sent to the textile | dyers of Paterson, N. J., greeting | their strike and pledging solidarity of the conference in their struggle, | the motion passing unanimously. | Authorities Refuse To Act in Lynching (Continued from Page 1) ee | plied to the soles of his feet, his | abdomen and other parts of his/| body. He was mutilated by knives | before the lynchers ended his tor- tures by riddling his body with bul- | lets. Battered Body Drapped to Farm The battered body was then| dragged by the mob of 2,000 to the | farm of George Cannidy, father of | the murdered white girl, who had ted to fire the first shot at Neal. | After the body had been viewed by the entire Cannidy family and sev- | eral of them had fired bullets into it, the body was then taken io the | The Times Courier, Marianna | newspaper, announcing the plans of | the lynchers, had quoted a deputy sheriff as saying in his opinion the mob would not be bothered either before or after the lynching. Governor Dave Sholtz of Florida in calling out the troops, only after | the lynchers had been given time to} carry out their pians, declared! that “under existing circumstances it would have been futile to call out the militia.” He described the, lynching as “not only deplorable but | absolutely unnecessary,” and} stressed the rapidity with which the Florida lynch courts move to rail- road accused Negroes to execution. I. L. D. Calls For Mass Protests | The International Labor Defense yesterday called on all opponents of lynching, on all friends of the op- pressed Negro people, to organize! vigorous protest actions against this! jJatest lynch outrages, the 24th re-! ported already this year. The or- ganization sent sharp protest tele- grams to President Roosevelt, and/| to Governor Scholtz and Miller of Florida and Alabama, demanding | the removal, indictment for murder, | and application of the death pen-| alty to State and County officiais| and private individuals implicated | in the kidnapping and lynching of Claude Neal. Put the Daily Worker First on) Your Political Calendar! ; because we know that only the MO) AY, OCTOBER 29, 1934 d File A.F.L. Men Discuss Program in Pittsburgh Whom Shall the Workers Support in the Elections? | By JACK STACHEL (Continued from Page 1) for the then four or five millions of unemployed. On March 6, 1930, the Communist Party initiated the mass struggle of the unempioyed, in which over a million workers participated. This struggle, which dramatized the need of the unemployed, re- sulted in relief to the unemployed in many parts of the country. Since then the Communist Party has continuously organized the struggles of the unemployed and mobilized the masses for numer- ous hunger marches and other actions, which com- pelled the Federal and local government to give increased relief to the unemployed. Every candi- date of the Communist Party in the present elec- tions was and is a leader in the struggles of the unemployed. Under the leadership of the Com- munist Party, hundreds of thousands of members of the A. F. of L. unions, hundreds of thousands of other employed and unemployed workers, were enlisted in support of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, proposed by the Communist Party. C. P. Is Working Class Party ‘The position of the various political parties on only this one burning question facing the workers should make clear to every worker what party he should support in the present election campaign. If we take the other issues facing the workers we find the same thing true—that of all parties only the Communist Party champions the interests of the workers, If we take the fight for higher wages, the fight for the righ to organize, the fight against compnay unions, the fight against terror in the strikes, what do we see? The whole machinery of the government, the Roosevelt N.R.A. and Labor Department, the state government, whether Demo- cratic (South), Republican (California, Pennsyl- vania, etc.), or Farmer Labor (Minnesota), was used to break the strikes, to terrorize and jail the striking workers. The leaders of the Socialist Party in the strike struggles relied upen the N.R.A. and helped to break the strikes of the workers by preaching reliance upon the Roosevelt government. One of the best and freshest examples of this was the role of Emil Rieve, outstanding Socialist, in the recent textile strike. The Socialist, Dubin- sky, leader of the needle trades union, was just rewarded for his work by the reactionary Green- Woll leadership of the A. F..of L., who gave him a seat on the Executive Council of the A. F. of L, Dubinsky, by the way, voted against unemployment insurance. Negro Rights Let us take just one more question—the strug- gles of the Negro masses against discrimination and for equal rights. This issue is today best sym- bolized in the Scottsboro frame-up. What is the position of the various parties on this question? Does President Roosevelt disassociate himself from the Southern lynchers, all of whom are leading Democrats? He does not. He upholds this system of lynching and discrimination. The N.R.A. codes provide, practically in the most cynical manner, for wage and condition discrimination against the Negro workers, How about the Republican Party? Where have they stated with one word their oppo- sition to lynching and to discrimination against the workers? Why has the Socialist Party refused, and why does it still refuse, to take up the united struggle for the freedom of thé Scottsboro boys? The workers must learn to understand that they can expect nothing else from the Democratic and Republican Parties than that they support the interests of the class which they represent, the rich class. They must also learn to judge the Socialist Party not by their words, but by their deods. The workers who engagerin militant class struggle on the picket line, fighting against the master class, cannot, without supporting their very enemies, support the parties that represent the interests of their class. The elections are also part of the class struggle. Each class has its own parties and its own program. Only the Communist Party champions the interests of the working class. The parties who claim to represent the interests of all classes only try to cover up the fact that they are the parties of the bankers and capitalists. A, F. of L. “Non-Partisan” Polley The leadership of the American Federation of Labor, which itself opposes the interests of the rank and file of the A. F. of L, and of all workers, who help break strikes through the N.R.A. and arbitration, who oppose unemployment insurance, are trying to keep the workers chained to the capi- talist parties by covering up the class character of these parties (capitalist class) with their so-called non-partisan policy of “support your friends and punish your enemies.” By selecting some politicians and singling them out for defeat, they call upon the workers to support all the candidates of the capitalist parties. In some states the A. F. of L. bureaucrats support the Republican Party and in some states the Democratic Party. Their whole policy is one of Pittsburgh A.FLL. | Parley Begins (Continued from Page 1) aid possible to workers in company | unions struggling to combat meas- lures of employers. | For Industrial Unions For genuine, bona fide, industrial unions, the merging of craft unions into these, and for the rejection of |the policy of class collaboration }and for the adoption of a militant class struggle program; For equal rights for Negro workers, and for waging of a united struggle to wipe out Jim-Crow practices exist- jing in many unions; for the im- mediate and unconditional release of Tom Mooney, Warren K. Billings and other class-war prisoners; for reduction of present terms of ap- prenticeship by 25 per cent and for the raising of apprentice wages on a@ graduated scale toward journey- man’s rates; for the right of all union members to belong to political parties of their own choice, with- hiding the true class character of the capitalist parties and preventing the workers from breaking | away from them. | In New York, for example, the Central Trades | and Labor Council endorses the Democratic ticket | headed by the banker, Herbert Lehman, in the | state, and the LaGuardia-Republican candidate for | Comptroller for the City of New York. But have not both the state administration of Lehman and the city administration of LaGuardia cut down relief to the workers, arrested, clubbed and jailed workers for going on strike? Are they not taxing the poor, starving them, while always looking after the interests of the bankers? Must Support Class Interests Only by supporting the Communist Party plat- form and its candidates, can the workers yote for their own interests in the coming elections. The | conditions of the workers will not be affected whether the Democrats or Republicans win the | elections. Because both parties stand for the in- | terests of ‘the capitalists. | But, however, if a few Communists are elected | to office, to Congress, to the state legislatures, what a powerful force they will be to raise from the legislative chambers of capitalism the crying needs of the masses, mobilizing them for the | struggle for their own interests! The election of such Communists or even a big Communist vote will be a warning to the ruling class that they must grant the immediate demands of the workers. All workers who wish to vote for their own interests can only do so by voting the Communist ticket, even though such workers may not yet be fully convinced that the program of the Communist | Party alone offers a permanent solution to the | present misery of the masses. The Communist Party is the best champion of the immediate needs of the workers precisely because it is fighting to do away with the whole system of capitalist ex- ploitation and oppression. To you workers who have already studied not only the platform of the immediate demands of the Communist Party, but also our program for a way out of the crisis and the building of-a new. socialist, society-in the U.S.A, modeled after the Soviet Union, where the stand- ards of living’ of the masses are constantly rising, and where unemployment has been abolished, where all forms of discrimination have been wiped out, we have an additional appeal. We appeal to you not only to Vote Communist, but to JOIN THE RANKS OF THE COMMUNIST | PARTY and help build YOUR PARTY, the Party | of YOUR CLASS, for a more effective struggle for the demands of the Communist Party platform, not only during but also after the elections, and for the abolition of the whole system of capitalism. ‘Back I. L. D, Is Plea of Mothers. (Continued from Page 1) are now. succeeded, we know that our boys will be left to the mercy of the lynchers. None of them ever turned a finger to help us or our boys in April, 1931, when our boys were first sentenced to die, nor any time since. “We know that our boys alone in the Alabama jails are being lied to by Mr. Leibowitz and his crowd. Our boys have even been kept from seeing the I. L. D. at- torneys although Mr. Leibowitz and his crowd can see our boys | any time they get ready. If our boys signed anything for Mr. Leibowitz we believe they did so because of these lies and trickery. “Mr. William Davis has been telling lies, saying the I. L. D. is bulldozing us. But we want to say that the I. L. D, has never bulldozed us; and if it had not been for the I. L. D. our boys would have all been dead and we mothers would have had no help. We are sticking with the I. L. D. | of our own free will and accord, our I. L. D. can save our boys. ‘We mothers condemn Mr. Leibowitz and his crowd as ene- mies of our boys and of the whole Negro race. We especially ask our people to biock the under- hand methods of these people to weaken the brave defense of our boys by the I. L. D. We ask ali our syrapathizers to support and contribute to the I. L. D, and the National Scottsboro-Herndon Ac- tion Committee, the only two or- ganizations which we have au- thorized to collect money, and to do everything else connected with the defense of our boys. “We especially appeal to Mrs. Janie Patterson, whose son Hay- wood with Clarence Norris is con- demned to die on December 7, to join with us again under the banner of the organization that has sayed the life or her boy as well as all our boys. We appeal to her not to be deceived by the lies, tricks and false promises of Mr. }away with. Rev. Ale. |ministers browbeat Een phe aa saben ta \telling them that the boys would sit in the “hot seat just as sure as you are sitting in the cold seat. now.” It the I. L. D. was not ousted, and “We know we are expressing the real heart-felt sentiment of our boys when we make this ap- peal to support the I. L. D. in the | fight for their lives and freedom. “We appeal to all mothers to help and support us and the I. L. D., for they do not know when their boys will be framed as ours “We feel that in fighting with the I. L. D. for the lives of our boys we are fighting in the best interest of our race. | sympathizers, | white, to join with us in this fight. \ (Signed) “Mrs, Viola Montgomery Mrs. Josephine Powell Mrs, Ida Norris Mrs, Ada Wright.” 4 Mothers Tell Story of Threats (Continued from Page 1) | with the lynch officials, who have |savagely persecuted the boys. |. Mrs. Norris, speaking with un- | concealed indignation and literally | shouting her words into the micro- | phone, declared, “I don’t want any- thing to do with this Leibowitz racket. We won't let them get away with what they are trying to get ‘We know that legal steps alone won't save those boys. It takes the unity of all of us, we all must let the lynchers stand united. The I. L. D. is the only organization that I know, and my boz, Clarence, told me he wants me to stick with the I. L. D.” Mrs. Wright Tells of Threats and Lies Mrs. Ada Wright told of how Lorenzo H. King and Rev. Richard Bolden of Harlem had visited several of the parents of the boys at Chattanooga, Tenn., in the company of John Terry, Leibowitz’ thug secretary who attempted to drive Ben Davis, Jr., editor of the Negro Liberator, out of Montgomery, She told of the intrigues of these people with Alabama lynch officials, of how John Terry was always to be found in the office of Attorney-General Knight, who has Jed the hue and cry for the blood of the nine innocent Negro lads, of how Terry and the Negro promising them that the best white people of the South (read the lynch | rulers) would “do something for the | boy and the big Negro churches | in the North would open their doors to the mothers, if the I. L. D. was | out of the case. She told of her ‘two boys and the others being ter- | rorized prison officials, and their minds poisoned against the I. L. D. |oy John Terry, Rey. Bolden and and | Rev. King, and by William H, Davis, publisher of the New York Amster- dam News who sent Haywood Pat- | ‘terson a telegram slandering the I. | L. D. We ask all Negro Mrs. Wright revealed that one of the tactics of the misleaders was to| | tell the boys that “all the Reds were | being jailed,” and that their mothers | would be thrown into prison if they continued with “the Reds.” “But I told my boys,” Mrs. Wright declared, “that I had been thrown into jail in Germany while fighting for them, and I was ready to go to jail any- time in this fight. That John Terry also lied to the boys that the LL.D. could have got them, out on bail ‘long ago, but kept them in jail so} jas to raise lots of money.” \ All Urge Support of LL.D. Mother Powell made a similar appeal: “I ask all those interested in the boys to get behind the I. L, D. The I. L. D. made the first fight for my boy and the others and have continued ever since in the fight. I will always be with the! Lhe DP | Mother Montgomery also declared: | “I want you all to stand by the I. L. D., to join the I. L, D. in this fight. Only by supporting the I.L.D. can you help free our boys. The I.L.D. and the Communists are the only ones standing up for the rights of everybody. I hope you all will join them and help to put this pro- gram over. Support the I. L. D. Leibowitz is trying to make himself on this case, but I want you all to back the I. L. D. I want them to handle the case until the boys are free. If we all stand up and fight for our rights we will surely win.” Ben Davis told in detail of his investigations in the South, his talk with the boys and their torture by prison officials, including an assault on Haywood Patterson even in the presence of Davis and Mrs. Norris. His revelations were fully confirmed by the mothers. Angelo Herndon called for a re- lentless struggle against the Negro misleaders, Leibowitz and their know we the mothers, | local out this affecting their member-/ ship in the unions; for a united struggle against fascism in Ger- many and all other countries, and against fascist tendencies in the United States and for the release of all victims of fascism. | Condemns Burocracy The conference has gone on rec- ord condemning the action of 54th annual convention in railroading through measures of bureaucratic officialdom and the throttling res- olutions introduced by rank. and file delegates. A resolution was adopted, dealing with fight for democracy in the unions, which embodies the fol- lowing points: That all union of- ficials be elected by secret, popular vote, supervised by rank and file boards; Membership shall have the right to recall any official by ma- jority vote in referendum, before term expires; All union agreements, amendments to Constitutions, etc., be submitted to membership for vote; No convictions for expulsion without trial by trial board elected by popular vote, full defense rights to be guaranteed the accused; All national and international unions shall call conventions as stipulated, in no case less often than every twd) years; No members, except those actually guilty of strikebreaking, to be deprived of right to be nom- inated, or seated as officials; Stop- | ping of officialdom’s policy of re- ‘using seats to delegates to central) bodies, etc. and the right of local| unions to declare strikes, start ref- erendums, and of members to be- long to any political party shall in no case be violated. | Dye Strike Solid On the Fourth Day (Continued from Page 1) ment of the workers is tremendous and officials announced that there will be no settlement without each shop voting. John De Petro, chairman of the Dyers Executive Board, | stated: “This strike can be won be- cause there will be no Gorman to sell us out.” He received tremen- dous applause. Militan rank and filers among the | strikers are increasing their ac-| tivity. Sol Walter, Young Commu- nist League member was beaten by Ammerato when distributing a Communist Party statement to the strikers outside the Roseland Ball- room meeting. Workers were ea- gerly buying the Daily Worker on their way to the meeting. For Rank and File Control Fifteen hundred silk weavers at) & membership meeting Saturday | morning proved a tremendous dem- onstration for Rank and File con- trol and a crushing defeat to the reactionaries under the leadership of the Lovestoneite Keller. The | sentiment of the workers prevented the contemplated plan of officials to initiate expulsion of militants, as reported in Jewish Daily For-| ward last Saturday. Attempts to elect some unknown _ individual named Ham by the reactionaries as chairman of the meeting were de- feated by the overwhelming vote for an active rank-file worker,! Phillian, who was elected. Keller proceeded to kill the meeting by reading long reports, beginning with the minutes of the last mem- bership meeting in August and aj long series of Executive Board Meetings minutes since and his own report which lasted an hour. He did not say one word on the need for united action with the striking dyers. The proposal for strike was greeted with tremendous applause and it means that at least half the industry would soon be in- volved. Indignation Bitter So bitter is the indignation of. the , ;members against the present Ex- ecutive Board, that although only one month is left for the election of a new board, when Sam Sher- ver moved for the election of a new board he was greeted with tremen- dous applause. Many pleaded, however, that strike action is necessary immedi- ately, and since election is coming soon anyway, therefore the mem- bers should fill three vacancies on the board as originally contem- plated. A motion to fill the va- cancies passed and in the elections a tremendous vote was given Valgo, Phillian and Sochan, militants who were members of the Rank and File Committee of Twenty-Five, now liquidated. A fight. arose when offi- cials refused to permit a vote on Valgo, recently removed by Keller from the board for his militant stand. Officials claimed Valgo, who came over with National Textile Workers Union, was not in good standing for lyncher allies. one year. Yet every member of the | | PICKETS; by Refusal to Grant directly responsible to the McLevy, attacked an anti- beat many, and arrested nent part in the demonstration. Communists. The meeting was called in pro- test at the announced arrival of the Fascist Consul-General, Borchers of New York, whose agent spoke here at the Pyramid Mosque on Friday. refused to grant a permit for the anti-fascist protest meeting to the American League Against War and Fascism, under whose auspices the protest meeting was called. The Police Chief, Wheeler, was given full power to handle the anti- fascist meeting in his own way by Mayor McLevy’s openly announced | policy of “hands off the Police De- partment” carried through by him under the slogan of “no politics in the Police Department.” Wheeler was recently decorated by the Ital- ian Fascist government. A telegram from the Civil Liber- ties Union of New York requesting that he grant a permit for the pro- posed anti-fascist meeting was wholly ignored by Mayor McLevy. In addition, the City Attorney, Har- ry Schwartz, a member of the Civil Liberties Union, was also requested by the New York office to act to- {ward providing a permit for the anti-fascist protest meeting, but he also refused, following the policy of Mayor Mclevy. Despite the refusal of McLevy to fascist binners or taking a promi-¢- Among those arrested was Kieve Liskofsky, 30, member of the Board of Selectmen and recently expelled from the Socialist Party because of his united front activities with the Hans Mayor McLevy had persistently | BRIDGEPORT POLICE SLUG ANTLFASCIST ARREST 6 Socialist Mayor, McLevy, Supports Police Action Permit for Protest Against Nazi Consul BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Oct. 28.—Close to fifty polices men, acting under the orders of the Police Chief, who is Socialist-elected Mayor Jasper fascist protest meeting here, six workers carrying anti- grant a permit for the anti-fascist meeting, the American League Against War and Fascism pro- ceeded to picket in front of the Pyramid Mosque, where the Fascist Consul was expected to speak. Ban- ners denouncing Fascism, calling for struggle against imperialist war and calling for the freedom of Thaelmann were prominently dis- played. When the workers parading be- fore the hall attempted to start their protest meeting, the police charged the meeting. The first speaker, Pearl Kosby, secretary of the American League local here, | was pushed. from the box on | which she was speaking. At this point, a-19 year old girl, Jean Mu- reika, chained herself to a nearby post and began to make an anti- | faseist speech, She was seized by | police. » Sam Krieger, Communist promi nent in the struggles:of the unem- ployed, was released on $500. bail |for “inciting to riot,” and. Liskof- | sky, charged with “breach of the | peace,” is out on $100 bail. Kathe- rine Zematis, Emily Mureika, Jean Mureika and Ray Cohen, the other workers, are each under $50: bail. | All workers are urged to send tele- grams of protest to Mayor Mc- Levy, Bridgeport, Connecticut. At the hearing the following morning in the court, Dave Kap- Jan, Young Communist League or- ganizer, was also arrested on a war- rant, charged with “breach . of peace.” Next Saturday the trial will come up in the City Court. N. T. W. admittedly came to the U. T. W. with full rights of old members, with each card even marked as admitted since the time of joining the National Textile Workers. The Keller clique was hooted down by the membership meeting and as a last resort Secretary Dern fished out the letter of Green for the expulsion of Communists as the basis for barring Valgo, but was hooted down. When, Chairman Phillian finally put the motion to the vote the membership stood up overwhelm- ingly for Valgo. Keller and the Secretary took the books and walked out of ‘the meeting, refusing to announce the results of the vote. South Mill Men Vote for Re-Strike (Continued from Page 1) still blacklisted as a result of his sellout of the general strike which Gorman termed an “amazing vic- tory.” In reality, thousands more than that are blacklisted. The de- mands of the textile workers in this strike of half a million textile workers, for higher wages, abolition of stretchout, recognition and the thirty hour week were all lost. Evic- tions continue, in spite of Gorman’s statement that they have ceased. Among the mills which have ad- mittedly called for strike sanction are mills throughout North and South Carolina and some New En- gland mills. Gorman admitted that blacklist prevails in 363 mills. He once more attempted to forestall these growing strikes by declaring he will sanction strikes, if adjust- ment is not made “after a visit by a representative of the National Tex- tile Labor Relations Board.” He thus stalls for more delay by once more trying to get the workers to rely on the very Roosevelt boards which have put these workers in their present desperate plight. Gorman spoke at a meeting at the Socialist Rand School, 7 East Fifteenth Street, togther with Louis Waldman state chairman of the So- cialist Party, Saturday and admitted that it “seems likely we will be forced to enter a new series of strikes.” The meeting marked an other step in the approach of the Sccialist Party leaders. and the Green buraucracy of the A. F. of L. towards complete merger. It fol- lows the election of D. Dubinsky, head of the I. L. G. W. U. and lead- ing Socialist, to the Executive Coun- controlled A. F. of L. convention. in addition to Gorman included Charney Vladeck, in San Francisco. Vote for Candidates Who Fight for the Workers 365 Days a Year—Vote Communist! cil of the A. F. of L, by the Green Representatives of Green's A. F. of L. machine who spoke at the meeting with the Socialist leaders Chester Wright, Green’s publicity man, and George Meany, president of the New York State A. F. of L. Socialist Party leaders who spoke in addition to Waldman, included B. The Socialist leaders highly praised the recent Green controlled A. F. of L. national convention heid Soviet Balloting Set for November (Continued from Page1) jhave taken up much labor, ‘energy ‘and persistence. Industrial Independence . “Our. heavy industry is coming out on a wide road of independence. Its rise is characterized. not. only by an. effort.to take first place in \the world as regards smelting, pig- iron and other products, but also by the fact. that all enormous new constructions. (the Moscow subway, a second track on the Siberian rail- way, new metallurgical engineering works) were erected by our Own means, equipped by home-made plants. From a technical view- ‘point the country is becoming. less dependent on the capitalist world, “The development. of industry, particularly of agricultural ma- chine-production, enabled the Party to carry out its greatest plan—the | collectivization of peasant farming jand thereby the drawing of millions of petty scattered poor and middle farmers into Socialist construction, “Now that the results of collec- tive farming are at hand, when even the blind see the ‘progress of collective production, when the col- lective farms have become firmly |rooted in the form of ‘farming, it |can be said with a feeling of satis- faction: This is a wonderful victory. The great unprecedented recon- struction of farming, carried out at the initiative and under the direc- tions of Comrade Stalin, opened new wide prospects for peasant par- ticipation in the contruction of So- cialism. - “Citizens of the Socialist state can’t think of themselves as isol- ated from the toilers of the whole world. They take a deep interest in international relations, in the position of the working class and of the poorest peasantry beyond the frontiers of the U.-S. S. R. The international situation will take up a fitting place in the elec- tion campaign, In comparing our country with capitalist countries, in the most striking examples the results of our work become more manifest. The relations within capitalist countries are full of the instability and uncertainty of the future, This is usually explained by the raging world crisis. To a great extent this is right, but the formation of enormous armies of unemployed is also a conse- quence of so-called rationaliza- tion of production lengthening the working day, cansing child labor, reduction in wages, an ex- ceptional fall in the prices of farming produce and a rise in the prices of factory goois, which leads to the pauperization of the masses, a fall in the’ umber of buyers and a fall in the total sum of currency on the markét, which in turn strikes various cap- italists with the same weapon which they use against the work- ing class and the peasantry. Such is the actual state of affairs in capitalist countries. There is no doubt that the coming elections will demonstrate before the whole world the entirely different sit- uation here in the country of proletarian dictatorship. i “We are carrying out Lenin's ideals—the liberaticn of human- ity from all forms of slavery.” © ote Communist A gainst New Deal Attacks on. 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